Stefanie Marinich

CAMH, Canada's largest mental health research facility, calls for Canada's incoming expansion of MAID for people with mental illness to be scrapped indefinitely.

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"More Canadians have been euthanized by doctors & nurses in hospitals, homes, & even our national parks since 2016 than the total number of Canadians who died during the entire Covid pandemic to date. And, that’s according to the federal Gov's own stats." gript.ie/the-people-lif…

Guest column by @davidlepofsky: “Canadians living with disabilities deserve better than federal budget's 'paltry' $200 per month” toronto.com/opinion/column… #CDB #CanadaDisabilityBenefit #AccessibleCanada #Canpoli

@maayanziv Wow

I’m obsessed. The next generation of disability representation looks like this. It sounds like this. And it will be like this. I’m so ready for it. youtube.com/watch?v=9HpLhx…

Another concerning read. The 'door' needs to be fully closed! The #CDB is a supplement - not a subtraction. P/Ts need to bring #PWD out of poverty not perpetuate it. We call on fed govn't to ensure no clawbacks of any kind. thetyee.ca/News/2024/03/0…

📢Just announced. Fed budget day will be April 16. We have called for a significant federal investment for #PWD. Lets make sure the #CDB is adequately funded. We will be watching. #PWD cannot afford to live in poverty any longer #FundTheBenefitNow cbc.ca/news/politics/…

Canadian Human Rights Commission issues statement on MAiD today @CdnHumanRights "MAiD cannot be a default for Canada’s failure to fulfill its human rights obligations under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)" chrc-ccdp.gc.ca/en/resources/e…

An "advocacy" group in Vancouver is calling for the government to stop funding organizations that disagree with euthanizing persons with disabilities/mental illness, who are not at end of life. This sh*&t, is surreal, where do they come from?

Inexcusable! An increasing number of people with disabilities are considering medical assistance in dying due to poverty. #MAID is supposed to be for incurable horrible pain, not Government failing to fix the social safety net #accessibility #AODA #onpoli

Passenger forced to drag himself off Air Canada flight after ⁦@AirCanada⁩ failed to provide wheelchair assistance #RightsOnFlights cbc.ca/news/canada/br…

Every day disabled people are left stranded by airlines. Today the Chief Accessibility Officer for @Canada @Stephanie4BC is without her mobility. We must achieve #RightsOnFlights. This is unacceptable.

1/2 📢 We’re disappointed to see Bill C-314 narrowly defeated at Second Reading. Thank you to the 150 MPs from all parties who voted in support of reconsidering MAiD for mental illness as a sole underlying medical condition. It takes courage to change courses.

Adults w/ disabilities report frequent mental distress almost 5 times as often as adults w/o disabilities. This #WorldMentalHealthDay, we want to acknowledge that, daily, #pwd face a multitude of barriers that contribute to the correlation between mental illness and disability.

Just a reminder that the my synagogue’s second largest expense… is security. We have to hire off duty police to pray in peace. It’s the same story across Canada and the US

Market Basket Measure of poverty (2023-base) consultative engagement 👇 statcan.gc.ca/en/consultatio…

ricochet.media/en/3991/Canada… "Gabrielle Peters, who testified to the Can. Senate on how MAID will impact working class disabled people, says the way the Canadian government has implemented MAID is deeply unethical. 'MAID creates a legal exemption for killing'.”

"Many Indigenous cultures hold life as sacred. The narrative that MAID could even be an implicit option for those in despair due to socio-economic challenges is not only alarming but against the very fabric of our beliefs." – @MeaghieC nationalpost.com/opinion/meagha… #cdnpoli #bcpoli

‘Assisted dying’ is incompatible with suicide prevention, an expert psychiatrist has said, as a bill is due to be introduced to Holyrood. betterwaycampaign.co.uk/expert-psychia…

For disabled people, inaccessibility is more than inconvenience. It is isolation. It is segregation. It is exclusion. It is discrimination. It is devaluation. It is trauma.